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New York Review of Architecture issue 45

Steve Watson — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:47:54 +0000

As its name would suggest, the New York Review of Architecture reviews architecture in New York. But this big, clever, funny magazine does much more too, delivering smart and gloriously overblown criticism on everything from movies, to rubbish collection, to cafes in banks.

In this issue:

New York’s timeless obsession with banishing its rat population
The politics at play in preserving New York landmarks
Sneakers as signifiers of national identity
The battles over New York’s congestion pricing
And The Brutalist and Megalopolis are considered as a pair of architectural movies

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Surprise Pack issue 3

Steve Watson — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:40:19 +0000

The third edition of our Surprise Pack is the ideal way to get a taste of our monthly magazine club experience, but without subscribing. Buy this Surprise Pack and you’ll get a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. But there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £72 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know exactly what they are until they arrive at your door. (Don’t be fooled by the illustration above – these are not magazines about coffee! Though we thoroughly recommend reading them with a drink by your side.) They cover a range of subjects, from art and design, to literature and the environment, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year.

Numbers will always be strictly limited for these special offers, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you will already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this third edition is by Brazilian artist Daniel Batista. We love his bright, wobbly illustrations – to see more of his work, go to instagram.com/freshprincipee.

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Backstage Talks issue 7

Steve Watson — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:18:05 +0000

Backstage Talks is produced in conjunction with By Design Conference, a design and business event held every summer in Bratislava. The conference brings together designers, artists, architects, and other creative people, and the magazine captures a snapshot of what happened over the weekend. But it’s not interested in printing a summary of the speakers’ presentations, though, and instead it gives a taste of what was happening away from the main stage, giving a sense of the conversations taking place backstage, over lunch or at the bar. And for this seventh issue the overarching theme is empathy in design and business.

In this issue:

Art director Anna Kulachek on the joys and challenges of teaching
Author and academic Heidi L Maibom on what empathy actually is (and what it’s not)
How to treat interns
The Urban Talks section presents stories of urbanism and architecture
And an introduction to regenerative design

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Superstore Wilderness issue 1

Steve Watson — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:05:10 +0000

A magazine that embraces the edgelands, Superstore Wilderness is drawn to the places that are neither rural nor urban – the often overlooked spaces that sit on the outskirts of our towns and cities. And the magazine is also kind of neither one thing nor the other – the tabloid size and improved newsprint make it feel like a newspaper, but its personal stories and lovely photography are 100% the stuff of independent magazines.

In this issue:

The brutalist beauty of Simon Phipps’s photography
Finding yourself in a liminal space
Making the case for National Park Cities
The environmental and social opportunities of brownfield sites
And lots of stories about cycling, running and walking through the edgelands

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Surprise Pack issue 2

Steve Watson — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:51:29 +0000

Back by popular demand, our second Surprise Pack is here to give you a taste of our monthly magazine club experience, but without subscribing. Buy this Surprise Pack and you’ll get a one-off delivery of five previous subscriber magazines for just £20. But there are only 100 of these Surprise Packs available and we’re not re-stocking, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The magazines in this pack are worth a total of £77 and just like with our monthly magazine club, you won’t know exactly what they are until they arrive at your door. But we can tell you that they cover a range of subjects, from art and design, to cultural criticism and philosophy, and they have all been enjoyed by our subscribers at some point in the last year. (But they’re not literally the last five we sent – that would make it too easy to guess which ones they are.)

We launched our first limited edition Surprise Pack last year and it worked really well, but we’re deliberately not doing too many of these, and the numbers will always be strictly limited, so grab yours while you can. And at the risk of stating the obvious, please don’t buy this Surprise Pack if you have been a Stack subscriber in the last year, because you probably already own these magazines!

Our artwork for this second Surprise Pack is by Coco Lom, an artist and designer from Hackney. She’s on a mission to open our eyes to all the joyful shapes, colours and patterns around us, creating illustrations with assistance from her trusty photocopier. See more of her work at cocolom.com.

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Real Review issue 12

Steve Watson — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:47:43 +0000

Real Review is a contemporary culture magazine exploring “what it means to live today”. This 12th issue is dedicated the theme ‘Absolute proximity’; the paradoxical sensation of claustrophobia and isolation induced by successive lockdowns at a time when the virtual keeps us more connected than ever before.

In this issue:

Have we changed? Archaeologist David Wengrow speaks about his new book on the dawn of everything
Philosophers Slavoj Zizek and Timothy Morton agree about the future of humans on planet Earth
Photographer Tacita Dean captures a boat abandoned at sea
Film curator Róisín Tapponi reviews fake nails
While editor Jack Self reviews lateral flow tests and mindfulness

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The Modernist issue 42

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:09:33 +0000

The Modernist is a quarterly printed publication about 20th-century modernist architecture and design. This issue discusses the theme of light and it’s guest-edited by Simon Buckley, creator and director of the Manchester-based Not Quite Light project.

In this issue:

Isamu Noguchi’s much-copied Akari light sculptures
In praise of shadows — a consideration of Western and Japanese design traditions
And the struggle for light in the design of cities

For a deep dive into the world of The Modernist, you can buy issue 40, issue 39 and issue 34 in the Stack shop.

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Desired Landscapes issue 5

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:42:01 +0000

Made in Athens, Desired Landscapes is an experimental travel journal disguised as an unassuming city guide.

In this issue:

Discussing Lance Wyman’s visual navigation systems and the sense of place in cities
What if we could end the arbitrary binary between what is nature and what is not?
Approaching Seoul through eight iconic locations that appear in Korean Wave films
Hyperlocal tourism as an antidote to forced confinement

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Superposition issue 1

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:39:35 +0000

Superposition investigates the human side of architecture. This issue is themed ‘Hardcore Home’ and it’s guest edited by curator duo Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen.

In this issue:

Architect David Kohn shares some of his inspirations
Home stories — brief tours of the homes of artists and designers
A journey through Fondamenta homes
Views of Miami as an attempt to understand the city

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Bum issue 5

Heval Okcuoglu — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:06:47 +0000

Bum is a risograph printed magazine from Helsinki that focuses on culture, design, and architecture. Issue five is themed ‘Enough’ and ruminates on ideas of adequacy: when do we have enough; what more could we do?

In this issue:

Beyond the Culture of Reproductivity — writer and researcher Litty Salas on arranged marriage in India
The Garden Hide — architect Kate Nicklin on the studio she built in her garden
Your Flowers Will Not Bloom in This — ceramicist Hania Akhtar on the War on Terror and liberal values in Afghanistan

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